DevOps Interview Questions 2026

Published July 22, 2026 · Updated July 22, 2026

3 DevOps interview questions from Netflix, Deloitte. All difficulty levels, all roles. Upvoted by engineers who were asked them.

3 questions
Companies: Netflix, Deloitte
78 upvotes

DevOps Questions by Company

Netflix (2)

Netflix Hard Technical round 4-7 yearsAWSDevOpsDistributed Systems

Netflix popularized "chaos engineering" — explain what problem it actually solves that traditional testing doesn't, and how you would introduce it safely into a system that has never done it before.

↑ 35 upvotes · 13 engineers asked this · Senior SDE
Netflix Medium Technical round 3-6 yearsDevOps

Explain the difference between a blue-green deployment and a canary deployment. When would you choose canary over blue-green?

↑ 24 upvotes · 13 engineers asked this · Senior SDE

Deloitte (1)

Deloitte Medium Technical round 2-6 yearsDevOps

What is the difference between monitoring and observability? Give a concrete example of a production issue that good monitoring alone would miss but observability would catch.

↑ 19 upvotes · 10 engineers asked this · DevOps Engineer

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Netflix popularized "chaos engineering" — explain what problem it actually solves that traditional testing doesn't, and how you would introduce it safely into a system that has never done it before.
Netflix popularized "chaos engineering" — explain what problem it actually solves that traditional testing doesn't, and how you would introduce it safely into a system that has never done it before.
Explain the difference between a blue-green deployment and a canary deployment. When would you choose canary over blue-green?
Explain the difference between a blue-green deployment and a canary deployment. When would you choose canary over blue-green?
What is the difference between monitoring and observability? Give a concrete example of a production issue that good monitoring alone would miss but observability would catch.
What is the difference between monitoring and observability? Give a concrete example of a production issue that good monitoring alone would miss but observability would catch.